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Daylight saving time has arrived! Doesn't that mean longer, warmer days? Well, one out of two isn't bad. We know how fickle March can be. We know how relentless winter has been. We also know that February is behind us. It's time, in other words, to take "meteorological spring" by the (turtle)neck and throttle it into existence. We offer a few suggestions: Go for green: You might think you're ready for a blast of color, but spring's first blush is green. Salute the lemony yellow-greens of spring by creating a centerpiece (or bouquet for your entryway or bedside)

Ellen Burstyn has been tapped for the lead role in Amy Poehler 's new NBC comedy pilot " Old Soul . " She will star opposite "Orange is the New Black's" Natasha Lyonne in the pilot under director David Wain. "Old Soul" follows main character Nadia (Lyonne), a former wild child who cares for the elderly. Burstyn will play the role of Nadia's lesbian aunt Eileen, a recent cancer survivor. The "Flowers in the Attic" thesp joins Fred Willard and Oscar winner Rita Moreno, who have already been cast to star in the pilot.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Sochi Olympics "opened Russia's soul" to the world and wrongfooted critics of the host country, President Vladimir Putin said in remarks broadcast on Tuesday. Taking stock after Russia topped the medals table and avoided major security problems at its first post-Soviet Games, Putin said constructive criticism from the International Olympic Committee had helped make Sochi 2014 a success. But there were other critics whose jabs were motivated by "the competitive struggle in international politics, maybe even geopolitics".

Each film has a soul and the composer's job is to find and express it, said Alexandre Desplat Sunday at what was probably the last, and certainly one of the best, awards-season event. In a private room in the Polo Lounge, Desplat sat with about 70 guests in a conversation about " Philomena ," for which he earned his sixth Oscar nomination. During his Q&A period, which was interspersed with piano performances, he also discussed his other pics, his collaborations with Stephen Frears (this is their fourth work together)

Nick Waterhouse loves soul and swing, not as a let's-play-dres-up fashion statement or a style, but as an attitude. It's a feeling within his music, his vocal delivery, that everything is not quite right with the world, even when the music argues otherwise. The music never feels too smooth, too easy. There's a sense that things could get nasty any second. Waterhouse's second album, "Holly" (Innovative Leisure), due out next month, represents a jump in ambition and execution over his 2012 debut, "Time's All Gone.

Every few songs it would happen: The ukulele launched into a furious strum, the bass began to gallop, the guitar jangled to life, and the three powerful voices behind those instruments erupted into a harmonious whirl. Then someone danced. There was no telling which songs would send a he or a she into a barroom spin to a roomful of cheers. At least there was no telling for a visitor from the mainland venturing out of Oahu's tourist bubble to catch some authentic Hawaiian music. "Oh, someone's going to dance to this one," said Cody Pueo Pata as we sat in a booth at Chiko's Tavern, a dim dive bar where the band had just launched into "Pua Ahihi," a slow country burner sung, like much of the evening's set, in Hawaiian.

The Kia Soul may look like a hipster's car, but a 2014 redesign gave it grown-up refinement on the inside, and at the Chicago Auto Show Kia showed the car's green side by taking the wraps off the 2015 Soul EV. Powered by a 27 kWh lithium polymer battery, the Soul EV is the first battery electric vehicle from the South Korean manufacturer. Kia says it will have a range of 80 to 100 miles. A sliding door in the front grille opens to let owners plug in to 120- or 240-volt outlets, as well as a CHAdeMO fast-charging option.

So what came out of Cabrini Green? Trouble and pain is the most usual answer. But Black Ensemble Theater does not dwell on such things. For the notorious public-housing complex on Chicago's Near North Side also produced some formidable artists, including Jerry Butler, Curtis Mayfield and, for that matter, Jackie Taylor. Taylor's revue-style homage to the soulful sounds of her youth is heating up her spiffy new theater on North Clark Street with the kind of emotional intensity that comes when you fill a theater with people who not only knew some of the musicians whose work is feted here but also may have gone to the same high school or hung out on the same street corners.